Genre: New Wave
Label Number: CD-4753
© 1978-1983 A&M Records
AllMusic Review by Greg Prato
© 1978-1983 A&M Records
AllMusic Review by Greg Prato
While their subsequent chart-topping albums would contain far more ambitious songwriting and musicianship, the Police's 1978 debut, Outlandos d'Amour (translation: Outlaws of Love) is by far their most direct and straightforward release. Although Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland
were all superb instrumentalists with jazz backgrounds, it was much
easier to get a record contract in late-'70s England if you were a
punk/new wave artist, so the band decided to mask their instrumental
prowess with a set of strong, adrenaline-charged rock, albeit with a
reggae tinge. Some of it may have been simplistic ("Be My Girl-Sally,"
"Born in the '50s"), but Sting
was already an ace songwriter, as evidenced by all-time classics like
the good-girl-gone-bad tale of "Roxanne," and a pair of brokenhearted
reggae-rock ditties, "Can't Stand Losing You" and "So Lonely." But like
all other Police
albums, the lesser-known album cuts are often highlights themselves --
the frenzied rockers "Next to You," "Peanuts," and "Truth Hits
Everybody," as well as more exotic fare like the groovy album closer
"Masoko Tanga" and the lonesome "Hole in My Life." Outlandos d'Amour is unquestionably one of the finest debuts to come out of the '70s punk/new wave movement.
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